cast;
altar
- Museum number
- Am,MaudC,GN.140
- Description
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Plaster cast of an sculptural fragment: Copan: altar U, west side. Glyphs A1-J5 (Maudslay glyphs:27-76)
- Production date
- 1880s
- Dimensions
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Height: 1116 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Height: 910 millimetres
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Weight: 95 kilograms (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Weight: 70.50 kilograms
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Width: 1682 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Width: 1596 millimetres
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Depth: 279 millimetres (Dimension Size When Packed)
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Depth: 125 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Erection original altar (Original altar was commissioned by Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat, ruler of Copan (763-810 AD), and was erected in the modern village of Copan) 763-810
- Acquisition notes
- See Eth Doc1979 for an extract from the Trustees' minutes confirming the transfer of the Maudslay collection from the V&A to the BM.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,MaudC,GN.140